The Mummy felt like a box office novelty act in 1999. 25 years later, it's become an object of surprising nostalgia.
recently attracted some attention for becoming the first non-superhero prospective blockbuster to open up the traditional summer movie season in nearly 20 years, since the 2006 release of. Back then, the first-weekend-in-May tradition was only seven years old. The other six titles in the club at that time: Two superhero movies; two Ridley Scott movies; and two, in fact, invented the first-weekend-of-May start to the summer movie season, 25 years ago.
Technically, anyway. The season was clearly moving in that direction throughout the 1990s, inching up from Memorial Day weekend to earlier in the month. It would have gotten around to the first weekend in May with or withoutremake with or without Stephen Sommers, who had at that point mainly directed some throwback Disney live-action pictures and one agreeably dopey monster flick called.
In fact, Sommers is the only filmmaker who’s really made a bona fide big-budget smash out of Universal Monsters material – for better or for worse. Hisstands as perhaps the ultimate example of movies that might have felt cheesy or hacky in 1999 managing to stand the test of time simply by maintaining a level of professionally silly, ineffable movie-ness that many of its spiritual successors couldn’t match.
By all good sense, considering the many flat-out stunners 1999 would provide, it’s fairly ridiculous thatwould be talked about with such affection so many years later – and as part of a bygone era, no less!should have inspired so many Indy-knockoff imitators and splashy monster movies that we’d all be completely sick of them. Apparentlywas sick-making enough for a whole development slate. It, too, now feels almost quaint in its excesses.
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